Born: Sarah Michelle Gellar on 14 April 1977, in New York City, New York, US.

Sarah Michelle Gellar (also known by her married name, Sarah Michelle Prinze) is an American actress perhaps best known for her role as the fictional character Buffy Summers in the acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for her role in All My Children (1993-95).

She has since become known as a film actress, having starred as Daphne Blake in the family film Scooby-Doo (2002) and the sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), the romantic comedy Simply Irresistible (1999), the independent film Harvard Man (2001), the teen drama Cruel Intentions (1999) and the horror films The Return (2006), The Grudge (2004), The Grudge 2 (2006), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Scream 2 (1997). She was in the TV movie Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1998) and provided the voice of April O'Neil in the film TMNT and Ella (better known as Cinderella) in the film Happily N'Ever After. She also played an ex-porn star in Richard Kelly's "Southland Tales" (2007).

Being sexy is being confident. It's important to know you don't have to have silicone breasts falling out and a thigh-high skirt. Sometimes you meet people and they think, 'Another cute little blonde actress.' That's not who I am.

Gellar met future husband Freddie Prinze, Jr., during filming of the 1997 teen horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer but the two did not begin dating until 2000. They were engaged in April 2001 and married in Mexico on September 1, 2002.

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